The private schools got to choose how many vouchers they wanted to take. So if it was a struggling private school like redemptorist They were gonna take a couple hundred while more popular schools might take 2

you do realize that the schools had to meet certain requirements to measure performance to receive vouchers. you're spreading the same bull shite the LAE is pushing out there that is WRONG. the LAE hasn't and will not ever tell the whole story.

quote:The public schools have standardized tests and other modes of evaluating the students progress and the teacher's ability, the private schools and teachers aren't held to the same accountability.

I agree. If your school is receiving state funding, you should now have a way to be graded or measure your students success, to prove the voucher system is beneficial

quote: What about children who start the year in the voucher program but then switch back to the public system?

This is why there are TWO count dates, October 1st and February 1st, and this is why MFP funding is spreadout month to month. It is not one lump sum for this exact reason. If a student transfers in the middle of the year, his new school will get the increased count.

quote:There were major illogical components which would have been exposed by a variety of different circumstances. Why have stringent requirements on public schools, administrators, and teachers but not have many of these same requirements for the schools to which these students are allowed to transfer? Teachers are tied to parish and state standards and curriculum but these schools aren't. The public schools have standardized tests and other modes of evaluating the students progress and the teacher's ability, the private schools and teachers aren't held to the same accountability. If the public schools are rated on a A-F grade school shouldn't the private schools receiving funding for the voucher kids be rated as well. How do the parents or politicians know that they aren't shifting their kids to an even worse school?

many of these require assumptions that the parents are complete idiots who aren't capable of making their own choices

I mean, they're protecting their interests, that's fine. but too many people are taking what the LAE says for gospel. too many people are blindly backing teachers because all they hear from their teachers are that teachers are under attack. that's not the case, at all.

You still could have a student in a school for a period of time without the funding for that student. Or have private institutions receive some funding for a student who only spent a limited time there. As far as what I think southernelite posted the requirements for the certain private schools were very, very minimal. Remember at these private schools some of the teachers do not have any educational degree or training and some do not have degrees in what they are teaching. Furthermore the private schools and charter institutions are given much more flexibility on the school and classroom level with regards to discipline, curriculum, methods, class size etc which is good, but also unfair when trying to adequately compare them to their public counterparts.